What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

Employment is the greatest dream killer

Even God cannot change the past.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.