You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.

A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.