More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
We all owe death a life.
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.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
