Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best..

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is….

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a p….

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to ….

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy..

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end..

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate..

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully..

Regret is just perfectionism plus time..

I do not have very much office experience..

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings..

I'm a believer in trusting the director..

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every pie….

If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares..

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make peop….

There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's ….

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right..

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them..