But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.