I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.