Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.

Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.