Top 287 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.