"We are not rivals to anyone seeking to assume power. And most certainly, no one can rival the MEK when it comes to honesty, sacrifice and paying the price."

"We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true," I said. "That's how to act at a party."

"Thus, to depict Rama as a virile warrior was a sin against Hinduism, an imitation of colonialist virility myths, a betrayal of the feminine passivity of genuine Hinduism. Or, to organize the Hindu rel…"

"Professor Richard N. Current fusses, not irrelevantly, about the propriety of fictionalising actual political figures. I also fuss about this. But he has fallen prey to the scholar-squirrel's delusion…"

"Gritter thought it was about time the complacent louts at the top of the heap got to have a genuine red-hot poker up the ass."