It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.
I always love China, especially the old China.
I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.
When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.
I'm an old bag - I like old thing.
I'm loyal to my friends, but I have so few now. I force myself to see people when they're here. Or when I'm here. I don't live in England that much now in the sense that I spend time in factories. I'm such a factory man now. This is really what I enjoy doing.
That kind of woman who used to be there at the time is not here any longer. In 10 years, people disappear. But I fantasize still about those kinds of women, and that kind of life that doesn't really exist any longer.
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.
I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H. R. ]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them.
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.
A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.