I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.