I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to do it more by herself. Somebody told me there's an African blessing, 'May we be buried by our children.' It's obviously the hardest loss.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.