"As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters."

"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."

"I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean."

"On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary."

"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."

"I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine."

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy."

"I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now."