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 t….

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan..

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

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exact….

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game..

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work..

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam..

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked abou….

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake..

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs..

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 was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was….

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the ….

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whol….

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait un….

It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' ….

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success a….

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who h….

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same s….

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

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sor….