More quotes by Salman Rushdie

"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
"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 respect."