We’re happier when the assholes are villains.
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.