A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
Salman RushdieI fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
Salman RushdieAll my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
Salman RushdieWhat I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Salman Rushdie