Be warned, nothing's been confirmed so far.
As far back as half-a-century ago, the Swiss philosopher Max Picard warned: "Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence," once as natural as the sky and air.
Sentenced to death by an Iranian theocrat, Rushdie himself would embody the perils of mixing politics and literature in an interconnected and volatile world, where, as Paul Valéry once warned, "nothing can ever happen again without the whole world's taking a hand" and where "no one will ever be able to predict or circumscribe the almost immediate consequences of any undertaking whatever".
But he warned, "If nothing happens, it will be a very big problem".
He warned that nothing would be accomplished if the Palestinians failed to act against terrorism.
When he was energy secretary, Ed Miliband warned that nothing could stop rising household gas and electricity bills.
In an Easter message on Sunday, Pope John Paul II called for talks to end the new wave of violence and warned that "nothing is resolved through reprisal and retaliation".
He then complained bitterly that his followers were being unjustly suppressed and arrested, and warned that nothing would force them to completely withdraw.
In Iran, the commander of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, took the unusual step of holding a news conference on Sunday to warn that "nothing will remain" in Israel if it or any other nation launches attacks against his country.
He has also called for urgent American involvement to stop the genocidal campaign against the people of Darfur, in Sudan, where the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development recently warned, "If nothing changes, we will have a million casualties.
