I don't know why I write what I write.
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.
After a while you learn that everything stops.
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.