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
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. Salman Rushdie blaireastfatal 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
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
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' Salman Rushdie accountafraidallow 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
