Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror's wand.