When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.