You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

It's the journey, not the destination. I truly believe that.

I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop.

It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

I'd love to do a drama.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

Old age is not for sissies.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.