I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.

I think that magazines like Vanity Fair are still operating under the old rules, and that if you come to work for a magazine like Vanity Fair, even today, you're certainly expected to treat people like Peggy Siegal very deferentially.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.