Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.

Biology always beats will power.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

Packaged foods, partially hydrogenated oils and enriched flours are not your friends. Above all, remember this one word: transfats. Avoid it at all costs.

There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.