The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.