'Do you kill people?''Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.' Time to Depart (1995)
Smartness always helps in gaining access to the houses of the wealthy. Anyone with a clean face is acceptable to thugs. Time to Depart (1995)
Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence. Time to Depart (1995)
He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence. Time to Depart (1995)