Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.