The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull your punches and second-guess yourself and not do things because you're worried, then don't write. Stay home and do something else.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.