Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

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

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

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.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.