If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.