The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.