It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

faith without doubt is addiction

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.