I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
Salman RushdieOriginal thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Salman RushdieIndia, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Salman RushdieThe question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
Salman Rushdie