A Writer's Ambition Should Be To Trade

Wherever We Find Orderly, Stable Systems In Nature, We Find That They Are Hierarchically Structured, For The Simple Reason That Without Such Structuring Of Complex Systems Into Sub-assemblies, There Could Be No Order And Stability- Except The Order Of A Dead Universe Filled With A Uniformly Distributed Gas.

Learn From The Mistakes Of Others. You Can't Live Long Enough To Make Them All Yourself. Boredom Sets Into Boring Minds. The More Original A Discovery, The More Obvious It Seems Afterwards.

From The Psychological Point Of View, The Self-asserting Emotions, Derived From Emergency Reactions, Involve A Narrowing Of Consciousness; The Participatory Emotions An Expansion Of Consciousness By Identificatory Processes Of Various Kinds.

Chemically Induced Hallucinations, Delusions And Raptures May Be Frightening Or Wonderfully Gratifying; In Either Case They Are In The Nature Of Confidence Tricks Played On One's Own Nervous System.

History Knows No Scruples And No Hesitation. Inert And Unerring, She Flows Towards Her Goal. At Every Bend In Her Course She Leaves The Mud Which She Carries And The Corpses Of The Drowned.