I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.

It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one doesn't look good.

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

The power of fasting is miraculous.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Belief releases creative powers.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin.

So… um… what’s the, er, date? You know, the due date for the little monster.