Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.