"It should have been a day of enjoyment."

"It should have been a day of enjoyment."
Wayne Bennett
New York police superintendent, on the 21 killed and scores injured when a tour boat capsized on Lake George in the foothills of the Adirondacks.
"Once you scatter the people, I don't know that you're going to be able to capture the past."
Historian Arnold Hirsch
On how black culture in New Orleans will be changed by the flooding wrought by Katrina and Rita.
"He was a poet and a musician with words."
Gordon Davidson
Los Angeles theater producer, on playwright August Wilson, whose death Sunday at age 60 came less than two months after he announced he had inoperable liver cancer.