I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

Creating things sometimes is difficult.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

If I didn't have a gig, I used to ring up all the comedy clubs across the country and go, 'If anyone drops out, I can be there.' Normally, someone would ring you up the day of. It's just perseverance, being scrappy, being a hustler. The first few years, a lot of it was under-the-table work, so that was good. I think I can say that now.