My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.