Ive never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. – Salman Rushdie
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. – Salman Rushdie
In later times wise men were never wanting who endeavoured to restore among their contemporaries primitive habits and ways of living, to bring mankind back to the observance of those simple and rational rules of life to which the ancients owed their health and strength. – Sebastian Kneipp, 1889, translated from German, introduction to Thus Shalt Thou