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
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie