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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Satan works through human agents.