Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. December 20, 1969
Birthday: December 20
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
source: "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.
topic: Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety, Weakness And Fear, Machismo