If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.