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.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

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.

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.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.