I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.

Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.

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

If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny.