Trying To Solve The Mystery Is What

I Wasn't In Any Way A Kind Of Soothsayer Or Not Surprised When Sept. 11 Happened. I Was Absolutely Shocked.

I Have Thought Sometimes That The Sanest People, The People Who Are Just Very Balanced, Very Happy, Are Probably Lower Achieving Than Other People. My Kind Of Irrationality Happens To Be Fear Or Anxiety.

There Is No Evidence That We've Been Placed On This Planet To Be Especially Happy Or Especially Normal. And In Fact Our Unhappiness And Our Strangeness, Our Anxieties And Compulsions, Those Least Fashionable Aspects Of Our Personalities, Are Quite Often What Lead Us To Do Rather Interesting Things.

When I Asked Robert Spitzer About The Possibility That He'd Inadvertently Created A World In Which Ordinary Behaviours Were Being Labelled Mental Disorders, He Fell Silent. I Waited For Him To Answer. But The Silence Lasted Three Minutes. Finally He Said, 'i Don't Know.

My Ideal World Was The Early Days Of Twitter, Where Everyone Was Curious About Each Other And Everyone Saw It As Kind Of A Window Into People's Lives Where We Could Be Compassionate And Curious And Empathetic And We Could Tell Each Other Secrets.