I dig all kinds of competition.

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space.

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.