Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Teach don't preach!

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.