I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.