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My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
