The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

I was taught that pain is bad.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.