...[A]nswers are easier to come by, and less reliable, than questions. If religion is an answer, if political ideology is an answer, then literature is an inquiry; great literature, by asking extraordinary questions, opens new doors in our minds.
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.