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

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.