Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. - Robert McKee

an ending must be both “inevitable and unexpected.

As Aristotle tells us: “For the purposes of [story] a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

When a society cannot ridicule and criticize its institutions, it cannot laugh. The shortest book ever written would be the history of German humor, a culture that has suffered spells of paralyzing fear of authority. Comedy is at heart an angry, antisocial art. To solve the problem of weak comedy, therefore, the writer first asks: What am I angry about? He finds that aspect of society that heats his blood and goes on an assault.