With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.