1. "Lies..." is also a novel. While the film was in production Ted sent me the script and asked me if I thought I could novelise it. He wanted it in the first person, yet there were scenes that "Davey", the protagonist, didn't see. I thought this was no problem. I was reading Donlevy, who switches from third to first person seamlessly. Ted was enthusiastic about my transposition, though he took out most of my many conjunctions, the "ands" I had affected between so many sentences, and Ted edited them (and) shortening the sentences very nicely, (and) he clarified the tenses. Shortly before his death, when I was working with him on this biography I found that he too tends to jumps haphazardly from past to present tense. Neither of us did this seamlessly, yet.
Novelising "Lies.." was a quick and a pleasant task. I was working from a great script which provided the structure, the characters, and the dialogue. It was the easiest of our several collaborations.

2. Ted wrote: "A the age of two and a half I ran after a little dog on the street, fell on a broken beer bottle, was carried back to the store by a passing sailor, and Mama almost fainted. A doctor was called and he stitched up a gaping wound. I still have the scar. The sailor brought me a puppy next morning, but Papa refused to let me have it. Things didn't start off too well between me and Papa."