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... →
Salman Rushdie
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The... →
There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage... →
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent... →
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one... →
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has... →
I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
Jimmy Rushing
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that... →
Douglas Rushkoff