The South is the last place with a sense of place.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.