After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.
Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.
When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.
I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.
It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.
Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.
I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.
I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
In the Palestinian camps in the Seventies, I fell in love with a woman fighter - now married with six kids, not mine! - and I seriously considered staying there with her.
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
I don't love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.
I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
