Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.