Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
If you're offended, it's your problem.
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.