Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

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.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.