I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
“The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.”
“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”