"Things have taken time to get used to, the weather's not great and people seem to drink beer all the time, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be playing."

"How many times had he stood calmly back there on the duckboards and listened to respectable-looking people …"

"The more recent practice of writing numbers on the arms of thousands of Palestinians who have been crammed …"

"——Patrick Witty, "Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen," in The New York Times LENS Blog"

"I'd thought that what I'd like to do is to a translation where I don't have to think about academic conside…"

"I do not ask you about the dead past. I bring you to the living present."

"The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water …"