1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

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

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.