In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

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

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.