However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

