Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.