What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

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.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.