What you risk reveals what you value.
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.
As your lover describes you, so you are.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.