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

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.