If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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