The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
From Salman Rushdie
I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
India is my kid sister.
Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
Cruelty is not a literary value.
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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