I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

Greatness is when you inspire others, motivate others and encourage others to live in harmony”.

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Being good enough never is.

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

It is not a war. It is murder.