I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

We all owe death a life.