We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.