1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.