My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

我的抱负是不再做服务员。这就是我衡量成功的方式:最终,我不再做服务员了,我付得起房租了,那就是当一名单口相声演员。不是一个很好的单口喜剧演员,但足以谋生。

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I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

我不游说与工作有关的人。只要我知道我有事情要做,我就不会真的担心。这并不是说我没有野心,而是我没有动力去取得巨大的成功,并且一直在工作。

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

我从小就有写小说的天赋,但我从未想过把写作作为一种真正的职业。我以为你必须有文学背景才能成为一个成功的作家,海明威或菲茨杰拉德的儿子。