"Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change."

"Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback."

"The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities."

"Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me."

"Wisdom principle 2 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 64."

"It is a humble truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering."

"Wisdom principle 8 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 12."

"Wisdom principle 102 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 15."