Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. . . . I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, you know, who was one of the authors of U. S. dominance, he's changed his mind, you know, and he's saying now we've got to learn to cooperate with other world powers. We are not the bully in the schoolyard here. We've got to deal with them. And that's my feeling.
I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.
But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second language.
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.
The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous enemies. We will look back on this moment where we thought Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were sort of close as a moment of bitter irony, when they get into a schoolyard display against each other, amping up each other's worst tendencies and putting the two countries in some sort of scary position.
Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.
