It Takes Enormous Effort To Avoid All

One Of The Most Difficult Things For A Writer In This Business To Accept Is The Uncertain Fate Of One's Work.

All Your Life, Other People Will Try To Take Your Accomplishments Away From You. Don't You Take It Away From Yourself.

Nobody Believes A Weather Prediction Twelve Hours Ahead. Now We're Being Asked To Believe A Prediction That Goes Out 100 Years Into The Future? And Make Financial Investments Based On That Prediction? Has Everybody Lost Their Minds?

We Live In A World Of Frightful Givens. It Is Given That You Will Behave Like This, Given That You Will Care About That. No One Thinks About The Givens. Isn't It Amazing? In The Information Society, Nobody Thinks. We Expected To Banish Paper, But We Actually Banished Thought.

Expectation Works In Mysterious Ways---and Totally Unconsciously.