What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

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

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.