When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I wouldn't look pretty as a woman.

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.