It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.