1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus.

Why speak if you can’t manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

Nothing but trouble outside my head; nothing but miracles inside it.

But I – and I just think it’s very – one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

A man who catches History’s eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Reality can have metaphorical content; that does not make it less real.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one’s parents.

It’s Kennedy’s war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it’s Kennedy’s war.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I’m now a complete ‘Game of Thrones’ addict.