Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.