Old. A viable die-able age.

One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust - and then tries to make it more accountable.

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution.