If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long. Salman Rushdie costdeadengland Change image and share on social
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things. Salman Rushdie endfightfriend share on social
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. Salman Rushdie bookendurepeople Change image and share on social
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world. Salman Rushdie actualchilddream share on social
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. Salman Rushdie bombayhometownimagination Change image and share on social
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. Salman Rushdie explaingodidea Change image and share on social
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. Salman Rushdie changeconservativecrime Change image and share on social
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel. Salman Rushdie characterentiremad Change image and share on social
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid. Salman Rushdie archbishopcanterburycultural share on social
