Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. You… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image