I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.