Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.