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- Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
- I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
- It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
- There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
- An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're…
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.…
- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems…
- I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
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