#Situations

"As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations."

"You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out."

"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."

"I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that."

"I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy."