Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.
A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
My idea of heaven is not writing.
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.