Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation