Our lives teach us who we are.

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

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

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.