I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't want to talk about that - especially Muslims. There is a common source for both Judaism and Islam, or let's say that Islam finds its source in Judaism. The commonalities of practice and sensibility, ethos and mythos, create a lot of overlap.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.