Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Salman RushdieAll my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
Salman RushdieI don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.
Salman RushdieHow to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
Salman Rushdie