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When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.