Quotes About Salman Rushdie

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

Literature is, as Salman Rushdie has observed, 'the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way' (Rushdie 1990, 16).

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. The only people who can see the whole picture, he murmured, are the ones who step out of the frame. (The ground beneath her feet.)

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. [ Don't allow religious hooligans to dictate terms ( The Times of India , January 16, 2008)]

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Our president looks like a Christmas ham and talks like Chucky. We're America, bitch.

Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved.

AS I PLAN MY QUEST," Quichotte said, drinking from a can of ginger ale, "I ponder the contemporary period as well as the classical. And by the contemporary I mean, of course, The Bachelorette.

Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell you, help. Help.

Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.

Being God's postman is no fun, yar. Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture. God knows whose postman I've been.

The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all.

in the midst of too much incident, Baby Saleem fell ill. As if incapable of assimilating so many goings-on, he closed his eyes and became red and flushed.

He talked about wanting to take on the destructive, mind-numbing junk culture of his time just as Cervantes had gone to war with the junk culture of his own age.

This leaves only two options: disintegration, or a new dictatorship ... no, there is a third, and I shall not be so pessimistic as to deny its possibility. The third option is the substitution of a new myth for the old one. Here are three such myths, all available from stock at short notice: liberty, equality, fraternity.

there were three bad mistakes you could make, but if you made only two of the three you could be forgiven. The mistakes were: to be foreign; to be clever; and to be bad at games.