I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.