1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,