My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

They don't have a boat or any other way to escape.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.