Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
I am a totally public person.
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.