40 Quotes by B. J. Novak

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.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

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.

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.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

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 infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.

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 party trick.

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