We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position. This is how we live. We live in a country in which we have these rights, and we're not going to give them up. Full stop. The end.

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

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.