Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

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

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.