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I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.