It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going through the stages of grief but now we needed to come together and set love and beauty and s...
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrag...
Do not start me on
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother tongues, violated privacies, untr...
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Let me belong again to that faraway place I left so long ago, from which I am alienated, and which has forgotten me, in which I am an alien now even though it was the place where I began, let me belon...
When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become , tha...
If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. 'No,' he said. 'I'm just going to try to be a full-time writer.' Oh, his boss said, you want a more money. 'No, really,' he said. 'This...
That witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.
There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never fo...
For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness – that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky o...
What a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varyi...
Yes, and words are not deeds, Solanka allowed, moving off fretfully. Though words can become deeds. If said in the right place and at the right time, they can move mountains and change the world. Also...
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.