Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.