When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

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.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.