Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.
Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.
The desire to perform impedes conversation.
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.