“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike . — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“O my vanity I am an arrogant man, is this weakness, is it just a dream of power? Must I betray myself… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.” — 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