When I was working on Eye of the Beholder I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door there was a part of me that went into a rage because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

I think the sport of wrestling which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34 kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.