I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

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.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position. This is how we live. We live in a country in which we have these rights, and we're not going to give them up. Full stop. The end.