...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.