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It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.