The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.