When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.