Badger: You think you're better than other people. Mal: Just the ones I'm better than.

Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.

‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….

Often strikingly original in linguistic or sociocultural terms, it is nevertheless characterized by what the Guyanan novelist Wilson Harris has called the realist fallacy.