If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

We are the storytelling animal.

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

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