But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviou…

- Chris Bohjalian

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

- Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitati…

- Chris Bohjalian

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

- Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

- Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

- Chris Bohjalian

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

- Chris Bohjalian

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

- Chris Bohjalian

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

- Chris Bohjalian