Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

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

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.