More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
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.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
