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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.