A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.