I Began As A Boy With Artistic

Like Neanderthals, Men Prefer To Hunt Alone Or, If In A Pack, At The Head Of It. Women, Whether In The Field Or In A Campfire, Are Collaborative, And When They Hunt...they Work Together.

The Issue Of Torture, Connected To American Soldiers, Is Not Somewhere Most People Want To Linger. We May Not Want To Confront This Issue So Much In The U.s. Because Of How We Want To Think About Our Veterans. There's The Sense That We Want To Think Of Our Veterans As - If They're Damaged, Damaged By Something Glamorous, Like A Firefight.

We Are The Planet, Fully As Much As Water, Earth, Fire And Air Are The Planet, And If The Planet Survives, It Will Only Be Through Heroism. Not Occasional Heroism, A Remarkable Instance Of It Here And There, But Constant Heroism, Systematic Heroism, Heroism As Governing Principle.

It Was Strange To Stand There In Front Of The Mirror And See Myself Like I Was My Own Best Friend, A Kid Wanted To Hang With Forever. This Was A Boy I Could Travel To The Seacoasts With, A Boy I'd Like To Meet Up With In Foreign Cities Like Calcutta And London And Brazil, A Boy I Could Trust Who Also Had A Good Sense Of Humor And Liked Smoked Oysters From A Can And Good Weed And The Occasional 40 Ounces Of Malt. If I Was Going To Be Alone For The Rest Of My Life This Was The Person I Wanted To Be Alone With.

Through Writing, Through That Process, They Realize That They Become More Intelligent, And More Honest And More Imaginative Than They Can Be In Any Other Part Of Their Life.