Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.