Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.