Salman Rushdie Quotes

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

War is unsettling.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

I unsettle all things.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

Nor is heaven always at peace.

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).