“ OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless. Salman Rushdie
“ ...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, a… Salman Rushdie
“ Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims. Salman Rushdie
“ Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and o… Salman Rushdie
“ [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?[ Salman Rushdie
“ It may be that writers in my position,exiles, or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by some sense of loss, some urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutilated into pillars of sa… Salman Rushdie
“ He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of no-way-back, made him afraid. When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuou… Salman Rushdie
“ 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 Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journ… Salman Rushdie
“ Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.I can wa… Salman Rushdie
“ Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be c… Salman Rushdie
“ Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. Salman Rushdie
“ Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions o… Salman Rushdie
“ A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. Salman Rushdie
“ Things aren't like this, he kept repeating. It shouldn't be this way. As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, right universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been… Salman Rushdie
“ ..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, o… Salman Rushdie
“ You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. You boy pussy but i like tom cats. Just because you got the dance, don't think you stand a fucking c… Salman Rushdie
