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It doesn't happen, the one moment. I had no intention, no dream to be a stand-up comedian playing nightclubs, nothing. My goal was to become a schoolteacher. It was in the year 1960 that for the first time in my life, I completed writing a piece that was an assignment. I was in remedial English, a freshman. The paper came back, but he [the teacher] read it, and it was a piece about just something that I wanted to connect with the reader — to understand, to feel — and I wrote about the first time I had my tooth pulled. I got an A/C-. The second piece I wrote, I felt much better about myself, so I've always been first and foremost the person who writes what he sees, but not for it to be funny. I want people to feel and see what I saw. And then comes tagging on the humor.
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