Quentin Crisp said....

“In New York, everyone is your instant friend. If you were to stand up in a diner and shout, 'I'm putting on a cabaret', then everyone would gather round and ask, 'Where will it be?', 'What will it be about?', 'Who will you hire?'. If you did that in England, there would be absolute silence, everyone would stare into their soup and think, 'How appallingly embarrassing.'”