I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

We are always going somewhereelse

May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.