When I Wrote 'The Interestings,' I Wanted To Let TIME Unspool, To Give The Book The Feeling Of Time Passing. I Had To Allow Myself The Freedom To Move BACK And Forth In Time Freely, And To TRUST That Readers Would ACCEPT This.

It Is Vitally Important For Me, Both PERSONALLY And For My Writing, To Be Able To Return To CHINA Freely, So Being Barred Entry Has CAUSED Me Deep CONCERN And Distress.

You Can't Do People Wrong. You Can't Do People DIRTY Or Put People's Life In JEOPARDY And Expect To WALK AWAY Freely And Just Continue To Live This Happy And Prosperous Life. That's Not How The Universe And The Way Of Life Works.

If One WISHES To Forgo The Protection Afforded By Secular Pluralism, Then PERHAPS WESTERN Liberal DEMOCRACIES Is Not The Right PLACE For You To Freely Exercise Your Religion.

Fundamentally, I Do AGREE, CERTAINLY, People Must Be Allowed To Express Their Own OPINIONS Freely. Freedom Is Part Of The Essential Rights Of All NATIONS.

I've Been Inspired By Coco CHANEL. She Broke All The Rules Of Her TIME When She Was DESIGNING. She Pretty Much Revolutionized The Way That WOMEN Dressed At The Time, And In Doing That, She Modernized The Way They LOOKED Because They Could Move More Freely In Their Clothes.

We All Know The SENSE Of COMFORT Of Which We Are CONSCIOUS When A Good HALF Of The Floor Space In A Room Is Unencumbered; This Seems To Offer Us The Agreeable Possibility Of MOVING About Freely.

In The Beginning, We Had A Great Deal Of Freedom, And Jerry Wrote Completely Out Of His Imagination - Very, Very Freely. We Even Had No Editorial Supervision To Speak Of, Because They Were In Such A RUSH To Get The THING In Before Deadline. But LATER On We Were RESTRICTED.

But You Know, If You LIVE An Affluent Lifestyle, There Are All Types Of TRAPPINGS That Are There That You Have To Be Cognizant Of, And You've Got To Try And COMMUNICATE Freely And Gain Understanding About And Then Keep Moving On, Because You Know, Sometimes Lifestyles Are CHOSEN For Us As Opposed To Us Choosing Them.