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

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.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

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.

I never could get a proper job.

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.