Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my… — 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
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the… — 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
