Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

There's a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions - like this anti-gay law you alluded to - and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people's emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.