When You Handle Books All Day Long,

My Publishers Are Wonderful Because They Have Let Me Write What I Wanted To. They're Wise Enough To Know That, With Any Author Who's Not Simply Writing Formulas - Who's Trying To Create Something New - Pressuring Them To Do Something For Market Purposes Almost Always Backfires. I Can't Imagine Working Under Those Circumstances, Actually.

The Very Worst Impulses Of Humankind Can Survive Generations, Centuries, Even Millennia. And The Best Of Our Individual Efforts Can Die With Us At The End Of A Single Lifetime.

We Gypsies Know That Where Jews Are Killed, Gypsies Are Always Murthered Too. And Then A Lot Of Other People, Usually.

If There Is Any Good In Life, In History, In My Own Past, I Invoke It Now. I Invoke It With All The Passion With Which I Have Lived.

...history It Seemed Could Be Something Entirely Different A Splash Of Blood Whose Agony Didn't Fade Overnight Or Over Centuries.