There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.