Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 19, 1947
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it..
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change i….
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist..
Our lives teach us who we are..
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better..
Until you know who you are you can’t write..
Good advice is rarer than rubies..
The problem's name is God..
A book is not completed till it's read..
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument..
‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our….
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today..
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has ….
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life..
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true..
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words..
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame..
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought..
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time..
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything..