In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

— Zack Love

Instead of mourning, instead of a moment of silence or a hateful, Islamophobic message, how about today we make the world a little brighter?be kinder. Be a little gentler, with yourself and others. Take more pictures. Tell more jokes. Be a better human. Today is a lot more than a tragedy. Today is a birthday. A day of suicide awareness. A wedding. A birth. A new job. Today is a kiss and someone on a tarred over warehouse roof whispering about the day the earth stood still and the day it began spinning again.be kind. Just be kind. It's time we took this day back for the wild ones, for the fiery eyes, for the happy and the brave and the new. No more mourning. Let it just be a Sunday.

— Taylor Rhodes

In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

— George Clooney

In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

— Tucker Elliot

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write-down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.

— Lawrence Wright

I see a sign for a bathroom and rush toward it. It feels stupid to be thinking about something as ordinary as going to the bathroom right now, but people still have to pee, still have to cry, still have to be human, no matter what else is happening.

— Wendy Mills

I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.

— Tucker Elliot

It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity, we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we’ve already lost.

— Tucker Elliot

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It feels like last week, but in fact we’re now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud ... and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan today who were in fourth grade on 9/11.

— Tucker Elliot