Our main source of economy is AGRICULTURE. What we should do is to USE the oil money that we have TODAY to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the BACKBONE of the economy of South Sudan.

I QUIT SMOKING WELL over twenty YEARS ago.

I have never UNDERSTOOD why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to FIND a way to be free.

There's a great deal of disturbance in this COUNTRY and how BLACK feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las VEGAS and New Orleans trying to RAISE MONEY for what happened there.

Stand-up will ALWAYS COME first. I've been doing it for 22 YEARS, and NOTHING COMPARES to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that SEEMS to me as SPIRITUALLY necessary and proper as it is INTELLECTUALLY suspect.

It's almost uncanny to receive a PRIZE NAMED in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my EARLY teens when 'The MAGIC Barrel' was published and I FIRST read it.

In the latter half of the last century the IMPACT of the expanding influence of WESTERN culture and economic SYSTEM BROUGHT about in China a severe conflict.

So was it a POLITICAL MISTAKE for OBAMA to PUT so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

The IMPULSE of the journalist is to be novel, yet to RELATE his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be TRUE, regardless of the moment.