It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.