For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.