It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.