“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack...”

“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.”

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”

“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”