We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell in a society where belief in our governments and in the strength of our institutions is declining.