Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

The price of seeing is silence.