When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
Salman RushdieIf the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman RushdieTo respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.
Salman RushdieThe world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
Salman Rushdie