perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

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.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.