You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.