You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
Salman RushdieThe history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
Salman RushdieIt's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
Salman RushdieBread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
Salman Rushdie