...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a mounting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence...

— Rohinton Mistry

Mutilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nus swan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'It's all relative. At the best of times, democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures. Especially when the foreign hand is always interfering to destabilize us. Did you know the CIA is trying to sabotage the Family Planning Program?

— Rohinton Mistry