“Once before, my daughter,' she said, ignoring Ahmed's continuing ravings, 'your father and I, whatsitsname, said there was no shame in leaving an inadequate husband. Now I say again: you have, whatsitsname, a man of unspeakable vileness. Go from him;… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.” — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once before, my daughter,' she said, ignoring Ahmed's continuing ravings, 'your father and I, whatsitsname, said there was no shame in leaving an inadequate… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human beings to… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
