"One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock."
- Maureen N. McLane
"My brother was on his wayto a dental appointmentwhen the second plane hitfour stories below the officewhere he worked. He’s neversaid anything about the guywho took football bets, howhe liked to watch..."
- Tony Gloeggler
"In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology"
- Zack Love
"Because I was there that day, and so were you."
- Faith Sullivan
"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."
- John Updike
"Aren't 3,000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?"
"Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular..."
- Cal Sarwar
"9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No."
- Ruth Ahmed
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped awa..."
- Carl Sagan
"It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?"
- Martin Amis