"Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated."

"Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true."

"When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny."

"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world."

"The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning."

"I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family."

"God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."