Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences...

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

I think there's no question that a nuclear-armed Iran would bring stability to the region, because nuclear weapons are weapons of peace. They're weapons of deterrence.

The Proud Boys are over race. We don't talk about - we talk about race if you want to talk about it, but we don't have any guilt. No guilt whatsoever. No cis male guilt, none of that stuff.

It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set...

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was...

I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could...

There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to me that that is what people want to know about.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You can walk into any room and convince the person that you know what you're doing.

Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the...

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was...

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For...

Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major...

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through...

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone's heart, unless you're Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two most attractive things in a man is a sense of danger and being able to make a...

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.