You were born in zurich after your father was expelled from alexandria egypt. And you've described your childhood as one of financial ease and emotional deprivation. I made a vow that after forty i would never complain about my parents again, so i don't really want to complain about them. But look, they were brilliant people who had real trouble with their emotional life. All my work is trying to point towards a wiser way of living because i observed from very up close what happens when in a driven, energetic, otherwise intelligent people a their lives start rling out of control.