Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Mohit Bisht

10 Best Quotes From Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

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

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.

It isn’t easy to be a brilliant, successful woman in a city where the gods are female but the females are merely goods.