More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
