It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
My day is not that fun-filled or that filled usually with complications.
That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.
Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.
The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
Like a shadow, I am and I am not.