I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I hate wasting people's time.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.