Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie
A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie
I was 21 in 1968, so Im as much a child of the 60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. – Salman Rushdie
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie