'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.