Our lives teach us who we are.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.