Reality is a question of perspective.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

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