You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

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