I don't judge myself by what someone says.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

Can’t say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.