Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

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

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.