Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. - Salman Rushdie

I'll tell you quite truthfully that the great wound in my life [from then] is India, because of the way I and my work have been treated there

I'm going to tell you really truthfully, I'm not thinking about the long term [...] I'm thinking about little step by little step. I just think, Bop till you drop.

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green in its envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in its greatest rages, black.