“I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, b...” — Alan Bennett Quote

“I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.”

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.”

“I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.”

“The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.”

“I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.”