Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

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

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

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

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