And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

— B.J. Novak

But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

— B.J. Novak

He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.

— B.J. Novak

He started writing poetry again, but it didn't come as easily. It was hard now to get past the self-consciousness - the silliness, really - of being such a well-established adult applying himself, seriously, to such a youthful joy.

— B.J. Novak

I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.

— B.J. Novak

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.

— B.J. Novak

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheading, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

— B.J. Novak

Josh Funk and Hunter Fraser: we haven't been in touch in years, but you made me feel like the funniest kid in the world. I would stay up late on school nights to write things to try to make you laugh the next day in class, and you inspired the one piece of advice on writing that I've ever felt qualified to give: write for the kid sitting next to you.

— B.J. Novak

We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.

— B.J. Novak

We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it that I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.

— B.J. Novak