Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'