This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Moms, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people's perceptions of how you're doing.

My family visits the office, and we have dinner together. We do this once or twice a week.

I've been in England for a while, but it's true that at times you miss home, your family, your friends.

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.