I Think Life's An Irrational Obsession.

There Is A Kind Of Sense Of Truth And Reconciliation That Is Non-formalized, But It's Understood And Accepted. Haitians Are Haitians And There Is An Inherent Loyalty That Forgives An Awful Lot.

A Child Gets A Fever In The United States And It's High Enough And Sustainable Enough, All Of Us Can Bring A Child To An Emergency Room. Most Haitians Never Had That Opportunity. They Didn't Have The Emergency Room To Bring Them To. Virtually Every Time Your Child Has 102 Fever, You Wait For It To Die And You Have No Clean Water To Give It.

Love Is A Mess, At Best, And I Figure It Can Be Very Real In Spite Of All The Things People Try To Attach To It.

Reputations Are Maintained By The Outside World, And They're Created By It, Too, By And Large. And They Serve As A Hell Of A Device For Privacy, Because The More People Look For Something That's Not There, The Less Chance They Have Of Violating Who You Are. It's Like Going Out There With A Mask On, Without Having To Exercise Your Upper Body To Put It On.

Haiti, Like Any Place, Has Its Security Problems; It Has A Great Challenge In Terms Of Establishing A Kind Of Globally Acceptable Rule Of Law.