My writing sessions used to be very arduous, very painful, pushing against the wind in soft, muddy ground with like a wheelbarrow full of bricks. And I had to do it because, as I mentioned in the book ['Is There Anything'], you either learn to do that or you will die in the ecosystem. And I learned that really fast and really young. And that saved my life and made my career—that I grasped the essential principle of survival in comedy really young, and that principle is you learn to be a writer. It's really the profession of writing—that's what stand-up comedy is.