And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an audience. Right? I mean, growing up with the mother that I did, I learned that when you walk into the dry cleaners, there's an audience waiting for you. You know, maybe it's just the person behind the counter.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.