In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived. If you can't articulate ideas and if you can't articulate critiques of other peoples' ideas, then you're powerless. What always increases the power of an authoritarian regime is whether it can successfully prevent people from expressing themselves.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

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.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.