“i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.”

Act III
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

Manifesto 22 July 2011

Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)

Rachel's bedtime when she performs onstage.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

2011, Address on interventions in Libya (March 2011)
Context: America has an important strategic interest in preventing Qaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him. A massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya’s borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful — yet fragile — transitions in Egypt and Tunisia. The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power. The writ of the United Nations Security Council would have been shown to be little more than empty words, crippling that institution’s future credibility to uphold global peace and security. So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Source: Changes

Source: 1860s, Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills (1864)