It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

Justice is a jagged road.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.