Leon Max

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.