I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.