Salman Rushdie Quotes

“A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”

“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”

“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”

“There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.”

“You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.”