Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
Salman RushdieI'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
Salman RushdieSometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.
Salman Rushdie