Salman Rushdie Quotes

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

I was becoming post-ideological.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head.

We are really living in a culturally, post-Christian nation. The fundamental norms Christians have long been able to depend upon no longer exist.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it.

The Indian race has reached a crisis in its history.

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

Comedy has changed with the times, thank God - slowly, oh my lord, slowly - but it has.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.

I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That is discomfiting for me, and a tragedy for America.

A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

People ask me for autographs now and I think to myself: 'Are you sure?'

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman