Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

I don't even have a savings account because I don't know my mom's maiden name, and apparently that's the key to the whole thing.

[Referring to the Arab Spring:] The people were ruled for decades in fear of regimes. This year the fear was overtaken by hope and dreams of change.

We used to terrorize our babysitters when I was little, except for my grandfather because he used to read to us from his will.