“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.” — V. S. Naipaul Quote

“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”

“To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.”

“Making a book is such a big enterprise.”

“If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.”

“I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.”

“The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.”