Fear Is A Huge Thing For Older

The Greek Idea Of Fate Is Moira, Which Means "portion." Fate Rules A Portion Of Your Life. But There Is More To Life Than Just Fate. There Is Also Genetics, Environment, Economics, And So On. So It's Not All Written In The Book Before You Get Here, Such That You Don't Have To Do Anything. That's Fatalism.

You May Not Become A Celebrity. You May Even Experience Lots Of Illness Or Divorce, Or Unhappiness. But I Think There Is Still A Thread Of Individual Character That Determines How You Live Through Those Things.

Writing Books For Me Is Anyway Much Like A Military Campaign. I Confess To Fighting My Way Through With Military Metaphors. There Is A Strategy, An Overall Concept, And There Are Tactics Along The Way…tradition Would Say I Was A 'child Of Mars.'

Anytime You’re Gonna Grow, You’re Gonna Lose Something. You’re Losing What You’re Hanging Onto To Keep Safe. You’re Losing Habits That You’re Comfortable With, You’re Losing Familiarity.

I'm Not Critical Of The People Who Do Psychotherapy. The Therapists In The Trenches Have To Face An Awful Lot Of The Social, Political, And Economic Failures Of Capitalism. They Have To Take Care Of All The Rejects And Failures. They Are Sincere And Work Hard With Very Little Credit, And The Hmos And The Pharmaceutical Companies And Insurance Companies Are Trying To Wipe Them Out. So Certainly I Am Not Attacking Them. I Am Attacking The Theories Of Psychotherapy.