Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.