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Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.