One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
Salman RushdieMany men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
Salman RushdieOne of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Salman RushdieWe must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
Salman RushdieIn any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
Salman Rushdie