I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators