I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.