The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.