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

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.