Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.