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.

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

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.