“Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there...”

“Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big...”

“There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.”

“People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.”

“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the...”