I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.
I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.
When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.
I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you. " We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything.
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.
These things are sent to try us, but why me?