I love (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, (Ernest) Hemingway, I love Bill Bryson. At the same time, I love the Chinese (culture). I'm being stretched in new directions. The more areas I can expose myself to, the more effective I can do my job.

But there are new faces all the time.

There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from that point of view.

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.

The effect of the handover has been largely debated and talked about for a long period of time.