Quotes by : Salman Rushdie

All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument....

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation,....

Books choose their authors the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central....

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and....

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what....

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.

For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief....

...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of....