I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

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 have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the eyes of the pack are on you, you are either the leader, or you are lunch. So it's a basically hazardous situation to have the eyes of the pack upon you. And I think that's really visceral. I think that's bred in the bone. That's species - deep.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

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.