I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Are you seeking to be offended?

Dismiss any doubt.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

I took whatever the devil offered me.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?