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.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
We all owe death a life.
