I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.