In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
- Calvin Trillin(There was) a remarkable, if misplaced, self-confidence on Ray`s part that he could always concoct a story after his arrest that would set him free, ... a rather remarkable story that placed him at the scene but only as an innocent victim of circumstance.
- Angelo Amador