Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.
Life is a state of mind.
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.