I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

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

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 do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.

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.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.