QUOTE: Larry Miller:
"I've been moved constantly for a year, surprised each time, then filled with remorse at thinking I had seen and heard and read enough. Every story has shaken me: the widows, the children, the parents, the babies, the heroes. You've heard them all, yet they're new each time, aren't they? Each story of the woman praying for guidance and being filled with the presence and the light of her dead husband and hearing his voice, audibly, saying, "Don't worry. I'm with God. Don't dwell on what happened to me." Astonishing. I believe them. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't."
and:
"I've seen a bunch of architects' drawings for rebuilding on the site of the Twin Towers. Naturally, they all stink. (I don't get contemporary architecture, anyway. It's like modern and post-modern music and art to me, indecipherable and undistinguished.) Besides, has no one noticed? It's a graveyard, a holy ground of pulverized human bodies, a shrine forever where thousands of souls ascended in a great, mass apotheosis. Are we going to put a Starbuck's there? Leave it alone. People will come to pray. And if we're all worried about the loss in commercial land value--nothing wrong with that, by the way--the Americans (and others) who visit in the future will more than make up for it when they stay at hotels and buy food and raise a glass. "
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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