What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."

I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

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

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.