I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1, 200, 1, 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

There was a military police brigade with over 3, 400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.

In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality.p.403

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.