American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.