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

Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

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

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

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

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.