Someone asked what my apartment looks like. Here's the salon -- that's the living room, to you Americans -- awaiting furniture. On the mantlepiece is my collection of flags of countries I've visited, the Concorde model S. got me for Christmas, my Tintin rocket, a leather mask I got at a Florida crafts fair about 15 years ago, and a lovely photograph by Aurelia Bismuth. I bought the photograph at a photo show in Paris in November 2002. It was Bismuth's first show, and her first sale. "Well, you'll never forget me, will you?" I said.