My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.