1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had walked around in shock. On his way home he had stopped by a bakery and found the shelves cleaned out. Not a loaf remained, not a bagel, and the old baker standing amid the emptiness spread his arms and said, 'Should happen every day.

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

The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Burn the books and trust the Book; shred the papers and hear the Word.

the personification of philistine triumphalism

I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off.

If you're serious about shaking off your foreignness, Salad baba, then don't fall into some kind of rootless limbo instead. Okay? We're all here. We're right in front of you. You should really try and make an adult acquaintance with this place, this time. Try and embrace this city, as it is, not some childhood memory that makes you both nostalgic and sick. Draw it close. The actually existing place.

To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.