I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.