The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

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.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.