Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses Quotes

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God.

There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?