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I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.