I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.