The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.