England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.