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

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.