Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.