But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.