The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

India is my kid sister.