The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Salman RushdieSometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman RushdieHappy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
Salman Rushdie