Quotes Tagged With :rushdie

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been....

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT.....

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible....

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict....

...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out....

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive....

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight....

On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and....

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.