Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral...

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who...