I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and...
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from whe...
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why w...
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should be. The idea involved freedom, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness...
It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly...
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.
Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That...
Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?
