Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.