One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
Salman RushdieNot even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
Salman RushdiePeople don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.
Salman RushdieOne of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie