I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

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.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.