In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.Salman Rushdie
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.Salman Rushdie
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.Salman Rushdie
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.Salman Rushdie
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.Douglas Coupland