I'm working and everything's fine.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format five eight 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners so since writing books the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials and it can also end up in one of the books.

Good but rarely came from good advice

Learn to speak what you feel and act what you speak.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even one might say elevate has altered under commercial pressure perhaps into a different kind of purpose which is to divert and distract and entertain.