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If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

By the time I'm 40, the hope is that I'll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we've brought along the way.

As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.