Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. – Salman Rushdie