The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I can't remember what my first script was.
If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.