Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

There's a way out of every situation.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.