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

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.

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.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

If I was a locksmith, I'd be pimping that out man. I'll trade you a free key duplication for. That joke made me laugh before I could finish it, which is good, because it had no ending.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.