Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.

The scent changes the way you feel about yourself, the energy, and the aura you emit, but also directly changes the way others respond to you.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

Scientists are always skeptics.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.