The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

he captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say.

We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.