“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”
“Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
“Time, on its own, heals nothing.”
“(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.”
“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.”