I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.