Entscheidend / Deciding Genüsse / Pleasures Großartig / Great Klasse / Class Lehren / Teach Neu / New New York Sachbücher / Non-Fiction Schreiben / Writing Universität / University York
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.
I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.
I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.
'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.
I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.
