You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.