With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.