We Were Language's Magpies By Nature, Stealing

Human Beings Understand Themselves And Shape Their Futures By Arguing And Challenging And Questioning And Saying The Un-sayable, Not By Bowing The Knee Whether To Gods Or To Men.

Human Beings Do Not Perceive Things Whole; We Are Not Gods But Wounded Creatures, Cracked Lenses, Capably Only Of Fractured Perceptions. Partial Beings, In All The Senses Of That Phrase.

I Don't Think People Cry Reading 'midnight's Children,' But A Lot Of People Seem To Cry Watching The Movie.

Sometimes People Have Said That Islam, In Its Own Calendar, Is Still Only In The Middle Ages.

A Figure Of Speech Is A Shifty Thing; It Can Be Twisted Or It Can Be Straight.