When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.

Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

I can never remember the name of anywhere I've ever been. I will say that I've eaten at a ton of GREAT places. I just don't remember their names. I'm not that guy.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]