The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

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

If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.