The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.