More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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.
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.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
We all owe death a life.
