What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.