When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.