Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

We have to make our economy work for everyone - not just those at the top - protecting our country and protecting our planet.

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.