The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

We did the usual beauty, grace, anti-dirt spell, voice of a songbird, the works…it is never that kind of beauty that we gift. It is a spell. You are the most beautiful woman in the world to your true love. To everyone else, well… that’s up to nature. But, you are decently pretty. I don’t know why you are complaining.