The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.