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

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

...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.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.