1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

It’s true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world’s oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn’t know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

His beard was thick and red – and annoyed his mother, who said only Hajis, men who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, should grow red beards. His hair, however, was rather darker. His sky-eyes you know about. Ingrid had said, “They went mad with the colors when they made your face.

After a winter’s gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.

I must finish what I’ve started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

I’m no friend of Tony Blair’s and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

You don’t that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that’s a loss.