The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.