Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.