I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

Go with your gut, but use your head.

20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career path I've had.

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.