What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.