Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Salman RushdieCertainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Salman RushdieSpeaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Salman RushdieThe liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
Salman Rushdie