The Remarkable Beauty of Europe

Edinburgh is a remarkable place. I've always struck when I come to Europe because there's a dearth of beauty in North American cities. So seeing all those 70s monstrosities get demolished out of your beautiful city and things put back in their proper perspective is really nice. Chicago has some great architecture, but come to Europe and I don't know what the hell it was with you people. You got obsessed with beauty in some strange way that made it so staggeringly important for centuries and centuries to make things beautiful beyond belief. And one of the rules that I'm working on for my next book is make one room in your house as beautiful as possible.