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  • I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

    "David Sedaris diaries are mundane, profane, downright odd". The Associated Press Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 2, 2017.