Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

There are different kinds of people in the world.

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Mortality defines the human condition.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.