I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.