What you were is forever who you are.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.