I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity