Salman rushdie

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.