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

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

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

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

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.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.