Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.