There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.
The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
