Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

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

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.