"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 …"

"What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation …"

"He said to me, "It will always be difficult, but if you cry like this every time, you will die of heartbreak. Just kn…"

"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…"

""This is the kola nut. This seed is a star. This star is life. This star is us"."

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

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

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