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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.

I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it's a bit of a shock to the system. But I found Long Island people very endearing.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

China's development benefits other countries.

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.

'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S.

What happens in one region affects people across the world.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.