Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.