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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of c...more

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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that...more

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...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked in...more

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[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep br...more

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Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, a...more

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. India...more

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Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then yo...more

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Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always car...more

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There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Pr...more

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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person ...more

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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people...more

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‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

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Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standa...more

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This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.