I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.