Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

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

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?