Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.