You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.