Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. – Salman Rushdie

Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. – Salman Rushdie
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – 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