I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness. I know I can pick up a playbook, like anybody can, and I can compete with anybody.
I can learn a lot from Messi. Watching how he does things will help me a lot in future.
Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.
Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.
I like to be active in space in behind the opposition's midfield. That's where I can hurt the opponent most of all.
It's very physical in the midfield, but I've come into my own now, and I can handle it in there.
I can play left-back; I can play in midfield or on the left or right wings.
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.
Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.
I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
