Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Dream big, but do not fall asleep.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.