I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

It is important not to trust people too much.

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking