You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

India is my kid sister.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.