The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

'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.

I do not have very much office experience.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

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.