More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
We all owe death a life.
What can't be cured must be endured.
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.
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.
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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.
