For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

We all owe death a life.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.