I Don't Think You Can Revive Traditions

You May Not Become A Celebrity. You May Even Experience Lots Of Illness Or Divorce, Or Unhappiness. But I Think There Is Still A Thread Of Individual Character That Determines How You Live Through Those Things.

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 Am Not Caused By My History-my Parents, My Childhood And Development. These Are Mirrors In Which I May Catch Glimpses Of My Image.

In The History Of The Treatment Of Depression, There Was The Dunking Stool, Purging Of The Bowels Of Black Bile, Hoses, Attempts To Shock The Patient. All Of These Represent Hatred Or Aggression Towards What Depression Represents In The Patient.

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.