Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.
In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.
I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.