I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
Geoffrey Rush
I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was... →
Ian Rush
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared... →
Salman Rushdie
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous... →
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to... →
Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly... →
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an... →
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in... →