“Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.” — Hisham Matar Quote

Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational thought.

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

You can wear yourself out by saying yes to things you don't want to do, and nobody really minds if you say no. I enjoy my own company. I'm never at a loss for things to do.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.