More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
What can't be cured must be endured.
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?
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
