I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.
Our work is never over.
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.
You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.
I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.
