I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.