He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.