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Open Your Heart, Your Gaze, To The Visitations Of Angels, Even If The Gifts They Bring May Not Be Centeredness And Balance But Eccentricity And A Wholly Unfamiliar Sense Of Pleasure Called Joy.

I Know My Own Deficiencies, One Of Which Is That I Had Lived Away From America For Such A Long Time. It's Called Expatriate

I Think We're Miserable Partly Because We Have Only One God, And That's Economics.

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.

How Can Hitler, Or Some Other Murderer, Appear In This World? I Don't Think Any Single Theory Can Account For The Phenomenon, And I Think It's A Mistake To Try To Reduce It To Being Brutalized By Your Parents Or Having Grown Up In Some Horrible Situation - Like Charles Manson.