All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.