Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.