The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.