There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Ideas are bulletproof.