Born on July 31st

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

"I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I would get a compliment if I wore a blue shirt."

"I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?"

"I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?'"

"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 be creative."

"If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive."

"I'm a believer in trusting the director."

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

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

"If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view."

"My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them."

"I do not have very much office experience."

"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 piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over."

"'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 comic."

"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 people laugh."

"I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a profession. My dad saved me all that time by making me think, 'Oh, anyone can be a writer. It's like being a firefighter or a lawyer.'"

"I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great."

"In the field of creativity & art, to create is to take a leap of faith into the quiet canvas of your own imagination."

"Art is the expression of our deepest questions, painted in colors that words cannot reach. As a scientist & scholar, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Every act of creation begins with a willing heart and the courage to make a mistake."

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."

"In the field of innovation & tech, technology is the canvas where human imagination meets the logic of physical reality."

"We do not build machines to replace our thoughts, but to expand the boundaries of what we can dream. As a influential author, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The future is compiled from the small lines of code we write today in search of harmony."

"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

"In the field of innovation & tech, technology is the canvas where human imagination meets the logic of physical reality."

"We do not build machines to replace our thoughts, but to expand the boundaries of what we can dream. As a influential author, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The future is compiled from the small lines of code we write today in search of harmony."

"I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far."

"If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else."