I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.