To 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 RushdieDon't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
Salman RushdieHyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
Salman RushdieI don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.
Salman RushdieThe west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
Salman RushdieThe rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.
Salman Rushdie