It's Very Hard In Our Adversarial Society

We Cannot Be Studied Or Cured Apart From The Planet.

The Easy Path Of Aging Is To Become A Thick-skinned, Unbudging Curmudgeon, A Battle-ax. To Grow Soft And Sweet Is The Harder Way.

It's Not Enough Just To Be A Mother. It's Not Only The Social Pressure On Mothers By Certain Kinds Of Feminism And Other Sources. There Is Also Economic Pressure On Them.

I Like To Imagine A Person's Psyche To Be Like A Boardinghouse Full Of Characters. The Ones Who Show Up Regularly And Who Habitually Follow The House Rules May Not Have Met Other Long-term Residents Who Stay Behind Closed Doors, Or Who Only Appear At Night. An Adequate Theory Of Character Must Make Room For Character Actors, For The Stuntmen And Animal Handlers, For All The Figures Who Play Bit Parts And Produce Unexpected Acts. They Often Make The Show Fateful, Or Tragic, Or Farcically Absurd.

Tell Me What You Yearn For And I Shall Tell You Who You Are. We Are What We Reach For, The Idealized Image That Drives Our Wandering.