Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.