I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.