Rushdie Satanic Quotes

#1. Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

Jim Rash

#3. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Plato

#4. I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.

Virginia Woolf

#5. To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.

Salman Rushdie

#6. Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.

Salman Rushdie

#7. In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

Salman Rushdie

#8. There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

Terence McKenna

#9. Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Salman Rushdie

#11. What a leveller this remote-control gizmo was ... it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight ...

Salman Rushdie

#12. 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

#13. When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

Salman Rushdie

#14. If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.

Salman Rushdie