I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

I came out around 25 publicly.