My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.