"He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable…"

"Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a r…"

"“blacks. As in any free market, the coloreds were the middle classes, as it were—those who would give their lives to …"

"Do you think anything ever changes, Salazar asked. That we can make a difference? That we will become a better specie…"

"We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we a…"

"Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people…"

""Elvis! Elvis! Wake up. It’s past six in de morning and all your mates are out dere looking for work,” his father, Su…"

"There had been many such experiments when he worked in South Africa, in Vlakplaas, a notorious apartheid death camp."

"Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression-how long before the pot boiled over."

"He stared at the city, half slum, half paradise. How could a place be so ugly and violent yet beautiful at the same t…"