Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?