Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

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

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.