• There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

    Salman Rushdie: There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.
    "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Speech at Columbia University, archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.