Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.