on the Queen's death and the supposed strangeness of mourning someone you didn't know and who didn't know you

"Yeah but that is fame isn’t it - “lovely strangers” as David Thomson the film critic puts it - or not-so-lovely strangers - they traipse into your psyche and set up shop there. The feelings are different than the ones for parents or siblings or friends or colleagues or neighbors - but they are feelings. Attachments."