There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

Free speech is life itself.

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.