What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.