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

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.