Quotes from Salman Rushdie

But India has a population problem and its left parties also ignore birth control. So after the CPI there was the CPI(M), the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) a.k.a. CPI(M-L). Enough parties? Babe, the party's only just getting started.

Anyway, she wrote, it's good to learn that over there is not so very unlike over here , and that human intelligence and human stupidity, as well as human nature, the best and worst of it, are the great constants in the changing world.

Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.

because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.

Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself.

Pagas lo que debes. He hecho de ti un hombre.» Pero ¿qué hombre? Eso es algo que los padres nunca saben. No lo saben de antemano; no lo saben hasta que ya es tarde.)

I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off.

My field, she said. It should be a soft safe place for understanding. Instead it's a war zone. I choose peace.

Fortunately for Luka, he lived in an age in which an almost infinite number of parallel realities had begun to be sold as toys.

Contar una cosa del pasado comporta también contar una historia del presente. Volver a contar una fantasía, un relato de cosas imaginarias, equivale a volver a contar un relato sobre lo existente.

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

La moderación también está entre nuestras tradiciones, Begum. Come dos bocados menos del hambre que tengas: mortificación, la senda del ascetismo.» Qué hombre: conocía todas las respuestas, pero no había manera de tener con él una buena pelea.

the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light.

When you have things, then there is time to dream; when you don't, you fight.

It was curious that so avowedly godless a person should keep trying to write about faith.

fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with him. Now I have given him what he wanted. Now I have nothing for him, nothing held back, nothing to hold him.

Cuidado con el hombre de acción que por fin desea progresar por medio del pensamiento. Un poco de pensamiento es algo peligroso.

the posture than the results. This language thing is part of that. Excuse me: if you clean up the language too much you kill it. Dirt is freedom. You have to leave a little dirt. Cleansing? I don't like the sound of that.

History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness.

When we are born, we are not automatically human beings. We have to learn how to be human beings. And some of us get there and some of us don't.

like flies, only more foolish, because we celebrated our captivity.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?

Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...