I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.
You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.