Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.