To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.