If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Votes: 4 Emile Zola
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me. Votes: 4 Salman Rushdie