Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm's way. It's lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

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