To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what is that? That's - I wanted to explore that. And then I wanted to talk about how ideas are born. And the big question that the book asks in a number of ways about a number of things is that. How does a new idea come into the world?

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.