“Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main sto...” — Erik Larson Quote

“Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a way of stringing together the interesting stories that people have kind of forgotten and that are kind of surprising.”

“There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.”

“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.”

“As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.”

“And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.”

“I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.”