Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.