“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.”