Salman Rushdie Quotes

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

I resemble the father I once hated.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

The real demon in my life is my father.

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.

It'd be really nice to sit down with all the people who have hurt me and tell them all the reasons that they've affected me.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.

My father left our family for his 'yoga buddy' in 1984, when I was 15. I always stayed in touch with him - I had a deep need to be connected to my father, even though it could be painful at times. I shunned the yoga community because of his actions but eventually realized that yoga could be the antidote to my pain.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.

I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that triangle in my cradle.

It's tough... My real father - I have my stepdad, my mom remarried - but my real father lived in Thailand, so I barely saw him as it is. So it was really hard for me to go back there and just, I feel like I have a lot of unanswered questions.

I don't get asked this much - 'Would you ever wanna see your father again?' And the answer there is that I would like to see him again.

You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.