My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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