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.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Reality is a question of perspective.

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.