As a film-maker, he claims himself as belonging to the realistic way of story-telling devised by Satyajit Ray and Vittorio De Sica.
The combination of adulation and insecurity would drive anyone over the edge, he claimed, including himself.
The first administrator of the Aldeburgh festival, Steven Reiss, was sacked abruptly after 16 years – in part because, he claimed, he himself had sacked a caretaker whose teenage son Britten used to moon after.
Now it had become a crime scene for a coward, who waited for a woman to turn her back before ripping off a part of her identity he claimed for himself.
Turbo Paul connected some dots: the reader who asked about the investigation, he claimed, was Harkin himself.
The 19th-century philosopher William James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer himself, "Americanitis," in part the result of the accelerating pace of American life.
Mr. Klar's company was brought in to help, but he became so enamored of the penthouse space — which was to have been a home for Mr. Eichner — that he claimed it for himself.
He claimed that Greene himself had given him the exclusive rights to his story, citing a one-sentence agreement the novelist signed on his deathbed.
He claimed that he himself had spurred the debate on surveillance programs, programs he of course had assiduously kept as secret as possible.
