My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas sometimes ten years.