Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress Of Florence Quotes

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own, ' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.