Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized but almost every minority I know who's my age they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.