Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that.

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

Since I've had kids, I thank God that I don't drink, as I really wouldn't have been able to cope.

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.