Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.