I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

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

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

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