But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
“We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.”
“Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”