1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Matthew Wiener on ‘Mad Men’ writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it’s an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

I’m a novelist. Fortunately I don’t have to rule the world.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I’m not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I’m going to damn well be this person that I’ve set my heart on being.

PLEASE BELIEVE that I am falling apart.