I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.
Salman RushdieThe answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Salman RushdieI have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
Salman RushdieThat's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
Salman RushdieThe rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.
Salman Rushdie