The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.

Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall