Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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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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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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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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Originality is dangerous.
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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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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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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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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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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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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.