Salman Rushdie Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”

“I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.”

“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”

“British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.”

“Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.”

“Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.”

“Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”

“The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.”

“I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.”

“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”