1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

[...] life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.

Ci offendiamo facilmente, mortalmente. Siamo arrivati a pensare che offendersi sia uno dei diritti fondamentali. Pochissime cose apprezziamo più della nostra indignazione, che ci dà, a parer nostro, la giustificazione morale. Dall'alto di questa posizione possiamo sparare ai nostri nemici e infliggere loro gravi perdite. Siamo fieri della nostra suscettibilità.

The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!

I'm too young to die. The fallacy of youth. Death had never cared about the ages of those it claimed.

Men on the road together have three choices. They separate, they kill one another, or they work things out.

Our president looks like a Christmas ham and talks like Chucky. We're America, bitch.

Maybe, according to my insula, this is the way things are these days in America: that for some of us, the world stopped making sense. Anything can happen. Here can be there, then can be now, up can be down, truth can be lies. Everything's slip-sliding around and there's nothing to hold on to. The whole thing has come apart at the seams.