You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.