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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

There's nothing very interesting about my life.

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.