Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.