Watching the movie The China Syndrome literally changed my life. When I graduated with my Bachelor of Arts degree in theater, the plan was to spend a year in Northern California with my brother getting acclimatized to life outside of school, then move to San Francisco and disappear into some rep company. That was until I saw the movie The China Syndrome. It affected me so strongly that on the way home from the cinema I decided I wanted to be part of an industry that could produce something so powerful. Literally a moth later I was living in a room just north of Hollywood Boulevard. That was in 1979. My dream of acting has transformed, I am now a writer, but I still live in Los Angeles after all these years and look upon that evening in a movie house in Sacramento as a major turning point in my life.

Actually, Gang of Four changed my life. It was one of the best concerts I ever saw in the 1980s. Incredible intensity that I can still feel.

I read John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" soon after it came out, in the early '60s. I felt that this was what I would like to do some day. The thought stayed with me for the next 40 years. I retired in December, 1999. My wife and I took off in our car, in January 2000, for a ten months tour of the US, with the national parks as our only attachments. It was a dream come true!The tour was a dramatic contrast to the one we made around France, for two months, the next year.