I've spent my entire career being a satirist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
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.
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
Everything can be satirized.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
I've spent my life following my passion.
I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.