It's In Great Joy That We Grasp

The Interesting Thing About Something In The Back Of Your Mind Is That It Can Travel Pretty Far Back In Your Mind.

In Me, Speaking Psychologically, There Is Always An Ongoing Struggle Between My Enormously Self-regarding, Almost Delusionally Aspirational, Napoleonic Personality And A Marginalized One.

Stand-up Comedy Had An Interesting Effect On Me In Terms Of How I Started To Think About Constructing Things, Because I Really Loved The Interstices, The Linkages, Or Lack Thereof.

I Think As I Have Gotten Older, My Feelings About My Role In The Culture As A Writer, And Me Specifically, Has Changed, And Has Become More Degraded And Marginalized. This May Be A More Personal And Psychological Than A Sociological Insight, But I Feel More Vulnerable.

When I Started, I Wanted To Be Thought Of As Tortured And Seductive, Not Funny, But Humor Tends To Be A Reflexive Part Of A Person's Sensibility. It's An Almost Impossible Thing To Teach Anyone, Which Leads Me To Believe That It's Intuitive.