Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.