Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.