I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that politely. We did far worse things than you can possibly dream of, but we did it with that certainly gentlemanly swagger... Dreadfully sorry, but we seem to have crushed your entire continent's infrastructure. Allow me to make it up to you by offering you a job 4,000 miles away. No, no, I insist.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.