Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.

When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.