“Would that my mother could be author of my fate ...!”
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
“They will be the architects of my fate, I think to myself, despite what Sybil said about my being the author of my own destiny.”
“Emulate all the shit my mother hates, I can't help but demonstrate my freudian fate”
“Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.”
“... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate authority.”