I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

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

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.