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Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.