I think any stereotyping is too much.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.