I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.