I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

... you're nuts but you're welcome here.

I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.