A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.