I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.