I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.