I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, "How do you face up to violence?" And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.

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

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.