We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.