I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

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.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.