Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.