There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

I think writing should be about change.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.