They Say Everyone Needs Something To Love.

All True Readers Have A Book, A Moment When Real Life Is Never Going To Be Able To Compete With Fiction Again.

People Might Think Writing Is A Hard Business, But It's Nowhere Near Acting.

Wars Make History Seem Deceptively Simple. They Provide Clear Turning Points, Easy Distinctions.: Before And After, Winner And Loser, Right And Wrong. True History, The Past, Is Not Like That. It Isn't Flat Or Linear. It Has No Outline. It Is Slippery, Like Liquid; Infinite And Unknowable, Like Space. And It Is Changeable: Just When You Think You See A Pattern, Perspective Shifts, An Alternate Version Is Proffered, A Long-forgotten Memory Resurfaces.

When You Love Someone You’ll Do Just About Anything To Keep Them.

Photographs Force Us To See People Before Their Future Weighed Them Down, Before They Knew Their Endings.