If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. – Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie