If you can't convict a captain, how can you convict his president?

This issue of territorial integrity is always foremost on the minds of Indonesian policy-makers.

Obviously the deterrent value would be much greater if they indicted all these people.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.