The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.