"If we get a deal with the Iranians tomorrow, I will not feel victorious. I have lost seven years of my life. I have lost the opportunity to share a lot of my son's childhood. I will never get that back. That time is forever lost."
"So much attention has been paid to me while other writers have been in danger. All over the world, writers are thrown in jail. They mysteriously die in police custody. It is open season on writers and it must stop."
"There was one ridiculous occasion when they offered me a wig. I decided to try it out on a London street. I got out of a car in the wig and there were all these stares and comments: 'There is Salman Rushdie in a wig.'"
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