I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.