What else is belief but direction?

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

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.