People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

I don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that's what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.