The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill." He'd read it and say, "Are you kidding? I can't say these words." So it's all about perception.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.