Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.