Salman Rushdie
  • Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  • I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

  • What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  • I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

  • Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.