You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

…It was like he waved his magic wang, and I totally forgot how I’m not a gullible teenager anymore.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

There is no unconditional love in the universe.

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.