As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.