“The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.”
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Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30, 000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.