It's not just me; it happens all the time to all kinds of naturalists. Bird watchers, people who study the nighttime habits of arachnids, amphibious creatures and so on; it happens to a lot of us all the time.

I've read a lot of court cases and media accounts about how innocent people wind up getting shot by police officers, and you'll take my word for it that none of them had anything to do with beetle collectors. A lot of it has to do with misinformation from people who don't know what they're talking about, who tell police things, and then the police accept it and then view a situation through the eyes of a person who didn't know what they were talking about.

It wasn't so much about me as about the next guy who might get shot accidentally.

Our study is the first one of its kind because we followed the same people over time, looking at changes in their behavior.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

In the time I've been locked up here, I've met a lot of other people who are locked up and who may have committed crimes to be put here, but are not criminals anymore, they're really fine people and they're productive and an asset that society vastly under uses.