I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

I think the beard helps offset - it's the only hairstyle I can really pull off. But I'm often clean-shaven. I think, you know, for me, it's not that signifier. What's interesting to me though is although the beard isn't a signifier of that to me, other people very often think that it is. And so people in America might react differently. The, you know, border agents might react differently. The guys at airport security might react differently.