For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.