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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they ...more

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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taki...more

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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people a...more

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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition does...more

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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. India...more

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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. F...more

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Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are righ...more

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Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of comp...more

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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

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A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two doz...more

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She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it ...more