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So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.