You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.

Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

A dead love never dies.

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.