The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

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

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.