Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
My heart broke open and history fell in.
I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.