No one can live under degradation.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

No one can live under degradation.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I don't really take myself very seriously.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

Discretion is the perfection of reason and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains.