Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

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

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.