Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.