[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.