It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.