I've Found That Contemporary Psychology Enrages Me

The Word Power Has Such A Generally Negative Implication In Our Society. What Are People Talking About? Are They Talking About Muscles, Or Control?

We're An Air Bag Society That Wants Guarantees On Everything That We Buy. We Want To Be Able To Take Everything Back And Get Another One. We Want A 401-k Plan And Social Security.

We Are Human Less By Virtue Of Our Ideal Goals Than By The Vice Of Our Inferiority.

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.'

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.