L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

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.

... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

I love London, I love the British people.