I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.