When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not - you're the product.

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian

The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false.

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.