You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.