Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.