You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.