When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Humorists always sit at the children's table.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or your house - and actors make such a big thing of it and scurry into cars and drape things - you think they're going to be crucified or something. It's not a big deal. You can get used to that. It's not so terrible.