That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.

A pact must be kept and a secret must never be revealed ...”Pact of witches

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.