If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.Salman Rushdie
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.Salman Rushdie
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.Abraham Lincoln
