A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.