Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
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.
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
