Gossip, slander and jealousy have caused more pain than many wars.

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.

To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

What do you want? Sophronia was moved to exasperation. 'Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.'

What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important?

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was not like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally...

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

A person's name is a fate - conjuring incantation.

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no...

Yeah 'cause throwing knives at a girl is totally Going to get her to like you. #Tobiaslogic

McDonald, who was known to hate policemen, was once approached by two cops for a two-dollar donation. "We're burying a policeman," one of them said, to which Mike responded, "Here's ten dollars. Bury...

If it looks like a cat, walks like a cat, and has whiskers like a cat, it's probably a damn cat. But if it eats your groceries, messes up your kitchen, and makes you want to rip out your hair by the...

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

"The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses."

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she...

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her - - she was only an Object of Contempt

With him big Phil from Notting Hill, an old 'face' from the sixties, a pin-up gangster with a 'Mars Bar', weal scraping his left cheek, and of course two 'wag' slags in tow, trussed up like French...

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is...

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living...

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.