More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
