I don't believe anybody's going to catch up with them anytime soon.

I think anytime you can offer someone a job with the possibility of these stock options and making extra money on top of your paycheck, that's an incentive.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.