I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.