At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.