I love talking about themes in my book because, because they’re funny books they’re not necessarily apparent on the surface. But they’re apparent to me and I hope so. So I have several things, the first thing that is always in everything that I’ve written, in the Hank books, in the poetry books, in the comedic books that I’ve written on my own, is empathy. Because to me it’s the most important thing.
So if you’re a bully in one of my books nothing good is going to come to you. If you, if you feel empathy for other people, everything good is going to come to you. So empathy is different than compassion, empathy means that you put yourself in another person’s shoes, that you put yourself in the position of another person and you feel what they’re feeling. So almost every story that I write, at the bottom of it is about empathy, is about somebody who is not really understood what it’s like to be another person.
So that’s a huge theme.