1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time.

My field," she said. "It should be a soft safe place for understanding. Instead it's a war zone. I choose peace.

...we often imagined, as we drove, a fictional universe in which Fitzgerald's and Wodehouse's creations might visit one another. Bertie Wooster and Jeeves might have intruded on the rarefied world of the Eggs, silly-ass Bertie stepping into sensible Nick Carraway's shoes, and Reginald Jeeves the fish-eating Spinoza-loving gentleman's gentleman and genius finding a way to give Jay Gatsby the happy-ever-after ending with Daisy Buchanan for which he so profoundly longed.

Neela had dressed for beauty, not for warmth, and the afternoon had lost its glow. Solanka took off his coat and put it over her trembling shoulders. All around them in the park the colours were fading. The world became a place of blacks and greys. Women’s clothes – unusually for New York, it had been a season of bright colours – faded to monochrome. Under a gunmetal sky, the green leached out of the spreading trees.

In a time of constant transformation, beatitude is the joy that comes with belief, with certainty.

los paraísos artificiales acaban en infiernos naturales...

Para volver a nacer, antes tienes que morir.

incluso cuando la muerte avanza hacia el centro del escenario, la vida sigue luchando por la igualdad de derechos.

Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.