What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. – 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
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie