If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.