To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.

In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.