Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.