We're very pleased with that. It has been a good year for us.

is probably larger than any of us really wanted to believe.

The atmosphere is very strange for all of us. Germans and Italians feel very connected to the Pope, as many other countries do.

We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back.

It just made sense to apply this on a grander scale. If one of us can raise that much for a nonprofit on his own, what could a dozen or more authors pull in for the First Amendment Project?

This is far more serious, organized, committed, than many of us realized.