"It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either."

"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries."

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."

"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."

"Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing."

"When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends."

"I'd never made a teen comedy in my life."