I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

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