I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

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

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.