I never meet my subject matter. It's one of the advantages of living in Britain, a curious arrangement that has worked very well. Sometimes I go over to The New Yorker to get my fix, and wander in and people say, 'Thank God you're here', and ask me to fix the water-cooler. -- Anthony Lane http://arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/12/14/bolane.xml