Whenever I Finish A Book, I Start

The Intermittent Depression That Had Shadowed Him Throughout His Adult Life Was About To Envelop Him Once Again.

I Was Never Concretely Aware Of The Extent Of Anti-semitism In The United States And In The Upper Levels Of The State Department.

I Was Born With The Devil In Me,' [holmes] Wrote. 'i Could Not Help The Fact That I Was A Murderer, No More Than The Poet Can Help The Inspiration To Sing.

Place Has Always Been Important To Me, And One Thing Today's Chicago Exudes, As It Did In 1893, Is A Sense Of Place. I Fell In Love With The City, The People I Encountered, And Above All The Lake And Its Moods, Which Shift So Readily From Season To Season, Day To Day, Even Hour To Hour.

There's Something So Relentless And Foul About Hitler And His People, And The Way Things Progressed From Year To Year. It Just Got To Me In The Strangest Way.