Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.