I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud." You know what I mean? I try to grandparent myself now, because it's important to have fun, it's important to impart the fun in things to other people.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.