There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Quote by Lawrence Wright

Alfred A.
In the New World: Growing up in America 1964-1984. The New Yorker 86 (28): 47–48.

Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.