People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would... →
Geoffrey Rush
I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come... →
Ian Rush
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as... →
Salman Rushdie
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors... →
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an... →
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is... →
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine.... →
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends... →
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are... →
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the... →