Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

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

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.