Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.