Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.