One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.