“I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks… — 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
