We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.