For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen r….

As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then t….

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful..

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the disco….

London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day….

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, s….

Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's ar….

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this..

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life..

Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the ea….

I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all t….

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys..

As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species aro….