I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.
Salman RushdieTo understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Salman RushdieI believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
Salman RushdieBoth John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is โFreedom is indivisible. You canโt slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo โฆ but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.
Salman Rushdie