Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.

Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.

It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.

We tend to outdo ourselves.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.