I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Source: In Independent on Sunday (London), 4 Feb 1990.
-- Salman Rushdie, (Jun 19 1947-____), Indian-English novelist; His novel, The Satanic Verses, enraged Moslems, branded an enemy of Islam, and forced him into hiding.