I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

To reflect God’s image is a lifestyle

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

What do you live for? Would you die for it?

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much