Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

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.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.