I have a very sardonic view of life. I believe Theodore Bikel said it best when he said, "Life is nothing but a pool of mud." After I heard that I thought to myself, "He's right! Life is nothing but a pool of mud." It is full of disasters and unpleasantness and from all of this we can sometimes wring a wry kind of humor, especially dark humor. And since that is the way I am, it comes out in my fiction. I usually find it irresistible!