1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.