Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

There are those special projects that don't ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and 'Revolution' is one of those projects.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.