More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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 everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
We all owe death a life.
