At First, I Did Stories

I Think If Somebody Is So Set In Their Ways About What They Feel About Something - And You Get This A Lot In Academia, Of Course, And Also Different Sorts Of Journalism Too - You're Going To Sweep Under The Carpet The Facts That Don't Suit Your Thesis. And I Think That Happens Quite A Lot In The Courtroom, For Instance.

Sometimes Labeling Is Only Useful, Like With Ocd. Once You're Labeled You Can Be Treated. On Other Occasions Labeling Leads To Tyranny, Like With Childhood Bipolar Disorder In The U.s.

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.

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

I Heard A Story About Her Once,' Said James. 'she Was Interviewing A Psychopath. She Showed Him A Picture Of A Frightened Face And Asked Him To Identify The Emotion. He Said He Didn't Know What The Emotion Was But It Was The Face People Pulled Just Before He Killed Them.