Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.