England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.