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

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.

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

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.