New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.

Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.