There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

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

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

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

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening