When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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.
