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.

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.