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The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.

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Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

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I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

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A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at it and try to gather it.

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I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.

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It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

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I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

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For me, the easiest thing to figure out is the story I want to tell, and the hardest thing is to figure out the voice that's gonna tell it. And that's why I finish very little.

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I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 21st, 1977

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