In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

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.

We all owe death a life.

Our lives teach us who we are.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.