Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

by Salman Rushdie

On such coin-toss moments a life can turn. Chance determines our fates at least as profoundly as choice, or those nonexistent notions karma, qismat, “destiny.”

“When you publish a book, you either get away with it, or you don’t get away with it.”

After the angel of death, the angel of life.

“Terror must not terrorize us. Violence must not deter us. La lutte continue. The struggle goes on.”