I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Salman RushdieIf you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
Salman RushdieIf Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie