Salman Rushdie : (12)

" I accept there are people out there who don’t like me. I don’t like them. " - Salman Rushdie

" 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

" Everybody loves ‘The Wire,’ and I think it’s okay, but in the end it’s just a police series. " - Salman Rushdie

" The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. " - Salman Rushdie

" I used to write a monthly column for the ‘New York Times’ syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don’t know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year. " - Salman Rushdie

" In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West. " - Salman Rushdie

" Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. " - Salman Rushdie

" I don’t know what to say about literary critics. I think it’s probably best to say nothing. " - Salman Rushdie

" What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. " - Salman Rushdie

" You don’t fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism. " - Salman Rushdie