“I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.”

“Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.”

“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may b...”

“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”