But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

We all owe death a life.

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.