There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.