America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

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.

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

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

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.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.