Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.

Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they struggled with that. Everybody knew I was gay. They just didn't want to talk about it.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.