Salman Rushdie
10 quotations
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.