The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic...
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
