He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

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.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.