. . . I could't get lost in the story, not the way you need to be, to become somebody else.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.