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Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

I grew up on a tiny little island.

I never wanted to be a ginger.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.