I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.