There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Kill the body and the head will die.

The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.