The stories that unfold in the space of a writer’s study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections...

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat – a different one at different times of the day. I think I’m more a part of their ritual.

I’m always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me...

There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscars, and they were spotlighted very dramatically. And next to them were a series of shelves...

I hated leaving, … But the desk job wasn’t exciting enough for me. It had come to a head where I needed to either go back to get my college degree or stay there ’til...

I’ll convert a school desk into a tricycle, because how else am I supposed to learn to love? It’s not like baseball gloves are very effective oven mitts.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I’m a tidy eater.

We don’t want to be spectators. We don’t want to be working the desk and stuff like that. We want to be out there competing.

They might even include personal items you can put on the desk.

It shows you that everything is trading-desk oriented. They tend to move in packs.

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that’s covered this place

When you come in and you sit down at your desk and try to structure the middle of your lineup, that’s a fairly daunting task.