In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.