Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.