Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Well begun is half done.

I'm half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.