One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

My favorite Aimee memory: It’s 2000, late November.

Great news. Antoine Wilson, a guy that I got to be buddies with while we were both living in Wisconsin, has just had his first book come out.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart
have a common provenance in pain.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

Silence is about the only right the Guantanamo prisoners have left.

It is the dead
Not the living who make the longest demands
We die forever

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration’s detention policies.

The Office of Special Counsel will investigate U.S. attorney firings and other political activities led by Karl Rove.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.