Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

I don't want to be anxious on my day-to-day life. I want to try to imagine a future I'd like to live in and then write books and do things that, in my own small way, make it more likely that that future will come to exist.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.