In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.