Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
The post of honour is a private station.
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.
Olivia Wenscombe: You married her. You had a child with her. Alfred Borden: Yes. Part of me did. But the other part... the other part didn't. The part that found you, the part that's sitting here right now. Olivia Wenscombe: You could be in some othe...
I've got different things going on - part spiritualist, part humanitarian, part brat.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge ...
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever
