I Write Funny Nonfiction Adventure

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.

We Were Creating A World Where The Smartest Way To Survive Is To Be Bland.

We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.

Well, I Had Nightmares When I Was Doing The Klan Story All The Time. I Had A Recurring Nightmare Of Basically Being Exposed As A Jew Inside The Klan Compound.

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.