So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.