Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.
John GimletteIf you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.
John GimletteThere are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.
John GimletteIt is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key.
John Gimlette