“It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.”

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber – what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

The long run is the single most important ingredient to marathon success.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don’t move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.

I don’t know how long I’ll be competing but I’ll always be surfing. I’ll be surfing until I’m old.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.

My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She’s a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard.