Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.

One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.

My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.