It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.