They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

All my life I have been a nomad.