WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.