The problem's name is God.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.