If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.