To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.