Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.