Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.