薩爾曼·魯西迪
對后殖民主題的深刻探討而聞名
神圣的觀念在任何社會中都是最保守的觀念之一，因為它試圖將其他觀念——不確定性、進步、變化——變成罪行。
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
要理解一個生命，你必須吞下整個世界。
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
We are all migrants through time.
我們都是時間的移民。
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
世界上充滿了神奇的事物，耐心地等待著我們的感官變得更加敏銳。
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.
現(xiàn)實是一個視角問題；你離過去越遠，它就顯得越具體和可信。
To be born again, first you have to die.
要重生，首先你得死。
We all owe death a life.
我們都欠死亡一條命。
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
那些無法掌控主導他們生活的故事的人，無法重述、重新思考、解構、嘲笑并隨著變化而改變它的人，真正是無力的，因為他們無法思考新的思想。