One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.