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.

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.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

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.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.

We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.