The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.

In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.