Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

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

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

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

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

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

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.