I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
Erik LarsonThere'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.
Erik LarsonI started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
Erik LarsonBeneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
Erik Larson