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.

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

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

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.

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