It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.

narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body.