The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

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

Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

I grew up kissing books and bread.