There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Not one word of the following is true

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.