Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.