If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

The problem's name is God.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.